Literature, in Theory : Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses and Responsibilities.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword, in Lieu of an Introduction -- 1 Toward a Phenomenology of Urban Gothic: The Example of Dickens -- 2 Houses, Homes, Rooms and Tombs: The Unhomely Spaces and Monstrous Economies of Dombey and Son -- 3 In Visibility, or the Appearance of 'True Histories': Truth, Confession and Revelation in Anne Brontë -- 4 Contested Grounds: Historical, Epistemological and Political Identities in Nineteenth-Century Literature -- 5 (Sub) Urbi et Orbi: The 'Little Worlds' of London, or, Fear, Whimsy and Singularity -- 6 Professions: Of English Diaspora? -- 7 No, Not, None, Nothing, Nobody: Place, Pattern, Death and Narratives of Negation in Dubliners -- 8 'A self-referential density': Glyph, Fictions of Transgression and the 'Theory' Thing -- 9 'Theory' &amp -- the novel (and The Novel?) -- 10 Ghosts: Of Ourselves, or, Drifting with Hardy and Heidegger -- 11 The Reiterable Circularity Of Being: Poetics, Selfhood and the Singular Witness that is 'I' -- 12 Teaching Derrida: 'but just a minute, before we begin, a preface of sorts (after the event), a defence, apologia, apologue . . .', and other responses in the face of (yet another) programmed avoidance of reading -- 13 'The strong dead return': Harold Bloom's Daemonic Shades -- 14 Face to Face with Agamben or, the Other in Love -- 15 Responsibilities of J, or, Aphorism's Other: Criticism's Transformation -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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